That the European Commission proposes to make ship breakers outside OECD and the EU live up to EU environmental standards is as such a good idea, the Danish ship breaker Smedegaarden’s Chief of Sales and Purchasing, Morten Smedegaard, thinks.
However, the European Commission ought to focus on its own ship breakers first, he states.
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